$2000 to lower income Americans.

[Anler]

7 minutes ago, steve from amherst said:

April  6th.

May 18

Most will be dead by then

[steve from amherst]

2 minutes ago, Anler said:

Most will be dead by then

Actually  the  junkies  will  probably  only  need  to  get  the  April  one

[ManOnManOral]

22 minutes ago, Anler said:

Most will be dead by then

Ok.

[Angry ginger]

2 hours ago, Anler said:

Most will be dead by then

if we are lucky.  quick pains better than long drawn out pain

[ManOnManOral]

6 hours ago, revkevsdi said:

It's sad that they can't see it. 

If minimum wage was increased so that people could by houses and cars as with the same amount of working hours as they could in the 60's these retired fuckers would scream bloody murder. 

Government hand outs to business to  in order to keep the their retirement investment bubble going is fine.

Tax cuts for the 1% because they feel they earned it is fine.

10 years of that shit and they've called the poor whiners who should work harder. 

Hand out something to the poor and these guys want to know where theirs is.  

 

Says the fagg that pays min wage and profits off poisoning the environment. MAGGot.

[washedupmxer]

4 hours ago, Anler said:

Wanna bet? 

 

4 hours ago, ManOnManOral said:

Absolutely. If you think for one minute after one company goes broke another will not be there to fill the void, then you are a moron.

So bet

[XCR1250]

Why some Democrats worry the coronavirus could help Trump win reelection

By David Siders

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Politico•March 17, 2020

594 Comments

 

 

It’s the zombie primary now.

For all practical purposes, the Democratic nominating contest was over after Joe Biden won Michigan and Washington last week, then stretched his delegate lead by sweeping Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday night.

Bernie Sanders has almost no chance of catching him.

Yet because of the coronavirus, the presidential campaign is suspended in time. Rallies are off. Campaign workers, like many other people, are sheltering in place. On Tuesday, Maryland became the fifth state to postpone its election, and more states are expected to follow.

The postponements have left an unexpected opening for Sanders to soldier on, even as his prospects fade. The pandemic, which first sapped the primary of life, is now extending it.

“It’s frozen the campaign,” said Mark Longabaugh, a senior adviser to Sanders during his 2016 campaign. “I don’t know what major campaign event you are going to have … Put 50 press people in the room and let [the candidates] address the camera with their wives, maybe?

He said, “Past that, and I don’t see how you cut through this life-or-death coverage that we’ve got. … It just kind of closes it down.”

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

For many Democrats, the prospect of a stalled but protracted nominating contest is unsettling. Moderates are laboring to unify the party’s ranks behind Biden, and the politics of the coronavirus crisis is heightening their anxiety.

The conventional wisdom for weeks has been that President Donald Trump's uneven, and at times chaotic, handling of this crisis is deeply problematic for his reelection chances. But it may not be that simple.

So far, Trump has taken a beating over his handling of the pandemic. The economy is tanking, and just 46 percent of Americans believe the federal government is doing enough to confront the coronavirus, down from 61 percent last month, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Few people trust what Trump is saying about the pandemic, according to the same poll.

But Trump has time on his side, with the coronavirus spreading early in the election cycle. This week, the Republican president adopted a more somber tone, and some Democrats are beginning to worry that he could mold the narrative to his benefit. A massive stimulus, including direct payments to Americans, could help him in November.

“The initial mishandling of the coronavirus by the government doesn’t mean voters will penalize Trump in November,” said Michael Ceraso, who worked for Sanders in 2016 and was Pete Buttigieg’s New Hampshire director before leaving his campaign last year. “We know we have two candidates who can pivot this generation’s largest health crisis to their policy strengths. But history tells us that an incumbent who steers us through a challenging time, a la Bush and 9/11 and Obama and the Great Recession, are rewarded with a second term.”

In a normal year, the presidential primary would be shutting down by now, with Biden piling up delegates and Sanders running out of states to win. Biden easily defeated Sanders in the three states that voted Tuesday, including landslides in Florida and Illinois.

And unlike in 2016, when California’s massive haul of delegates came later in the process, Sanders has little to look forward to. Sanders was widely expected to lose in delegate-rich Ohio on Tuesday before the state postponed its primary at the last minute. Georgia, which also just pushed back its primary that had been scheduled for next week, looked similarly grim for the Vermont senator.

But the coronavirus has temporarily forestalled those outcomes. And if Puerto Rico reschedules its March 29 primary as expected, it will be more than two weeks before the next regularly scheduled primaries.

Many of Sanders’ allies are lobbying him to stay in — not to win, necessarily, but to amass more delegates to help advance progressive policy causes at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

In this image from video provided by BernieSanders.com, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks from Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Sanders himself has given no indication he is eyeing the exits. He has staff in place for states voting in late April, with allies believing he may perform better in the Northeast if he can hang on until the primaries there. The Democratic National Committee’s framework calls for another debate that month, offering Sanders another platform if he sticks around. Sanders’ supporters have learned from this primary more than others that a race can change dramatically in two weeks.

“It’s about winning, but it’s also about building movements,” said Norman Solomon, a co-founder of the pro-Sanders online activist group RootsAction.org.

He cast the Vermont senator not only as a politician, but as a teacher who, “even in this somewhat dire moment of the campaign” is “still trying to deepen and widen” the political discourse.

In an election night address before polls closed Tuesday, Sanders spoke exclusively about the coronavirus and measures he said Congress should take to address it.

Hours later, in live-streamed remarks from his home in Wilmington, Del., Biden did much the same, calling the response to the pandemic “akin to fighting a war.”

He acknowledged that Sanders and his supporters had “shifted the fundamental conversation” in the United States on a number of issues, and he turned to them directly, saying, “I hear you. I know what’s at stake.”

But the online-only settings of the candidates’ remarks served as a reminder of how dramatically the campaign has changed — and how far removed it now seems from many of the ideological disputes that defined the early stages of the race.

The pandemic, Biden said in a message fit for the general election, was a reminder of a need to “put politics aside.”

And with much of the electorate no longer fixated on the primary, but on a virus, that is a sentiment many voters may share, too. Viewership for the debate on Sunday between Biden and Sanders was down significantly from previous, pre-pandemic events. People are fearful, and the economy is shutting down.

Paul Maslin, a top Democratic pollster who worked on the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Howard Dean, predicted the primary will “hold in place with no actual campaign going on" for several weeks and "possibly longer."

Regardless, Maslin added, “Voters don’t want this choice anymore" between Biden and Sanders. "They know Biden is the winner. They don’t want to think about politics with a humongous crisis going on.”

[revkevsdi]

31 minutes ago, ManOnManOral said:

Says the fagg that pays min wage and profits off poisoning the environment. MAGGot.

Why do you feel the need to lie all the time?

show us some more cool ski photos. 
 

I’ve seen driveways with more vertical. 

[1jkw]

 

Government employees should be exempt unless they are laid off.

[Mileage Psycho]

6 hours ago, Highmark said:

This will set us up for dangerous way more American's look at the govt than even before.

In this case the focus at most should be on those losing their job not just a across the board check to everyone or by income.

Without question.

6 hours ago, Anler said:

I feel like this would be better utilized thru unemployment benefits. And people who work for cash or whatever can apply for emergency assistance thru UI

There are people that will be out of work for weeks, the money should go to those who truly need it.

Let's be honest, it's an election year................

[SSFB]

I promise to redistribute some of my check to single moms. 

 

[ManOnManOral]

2 hours ago, revkevsdi said:

Why do you feel the need to lie all the time?

show us some more cool ski photos. 
 

I’ve seen driveways with more vertical. 

You pay min wage, you make poison and you cannot ski.

 

[revkevsdi]

20 minutes ago, ManOnManOral said:

You pay min wage, you make poison and you cannot ski.

 

Skiing is ok. My wife skis steeper shit than you ya posing pussy. “ I’m a ski instructor “            I like boarding. 

[ManOnManOral]

3 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

Skiing is ok. My wife skis steeper shit than you ya posing pussy. “ I’m a ski instructor “            I like boarding. 

Hahaha, what a beginner.

[revkevsdi]

22 minutes ago, ManOnManOral said:

Hahaha, what a beginner.

Green run goober 

[ManOnManOral]

1 hour ago, revkevsdi said:

Green run goober 

Level 4 instructor. You, beginner. Sorry faggs, you suck at life.

[Highmark]